MEMBERSHIP AND CODES

Stephen

I Am Watching You

By:
Teresa Driscoll

Narrated by:
Elizabeth Knowelden

Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
2,124

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
1,931

Story

4 out of 5 stars
1,926

When Ella Longfield overhears two attractive young men flirting with teenage girls on a train, she thinks nothing of it - until she realises they are fresh out of prison and her maternal instinct is put on high alert. But just as she's decided to call for help, something stops her. The next day, she wakes up to the news that one of the girls - beautiful, green-eyed Anna Ballard - has disappeared.

A Glowing Five Stars

not for me

found it slow going and couldn't wait for it to finish, got a bit lost with the character changes.

The Chalk Man

By:
C J Tudor

Narrated by:
Andrew Scott,
Asa Butterfield

Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
1,143

Performance

4 out of 5 stars
1,073

Story

4 out of 5 stars
1,072

None of us ever agreed on the exact beginning. Was it when we started drawing the chalk figures, or when they started to appear on their own? Was it the terrible accident? Or when they found the first body?

Good story, narration not so good

Narration is perfect

enjoyed the book but the narration is the key, beautifully read by both. very good

Us Against You

By:
Fredrik Backman

Narrated by:
John Sackville

Length: 13 hrs and 47 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
102

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
94

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
94

A small, broken town sits on the edge of a frozen lake surrounded by a forest, its wounds still raw from a tragedy that tore its fragile community in two. Beartown has lost its way. Now the cold and dark that surround the snowbound town creep in, and so do new conflicts and tensions. What was once a friendly rivalry with the neighbouring town is beginning to turn sinister and Beartown braces itself for another tragic blow. How far will the people of Beartown go to preserve their reputations for a second, deadly time?

Outstanding

Brilliant

wasn't sure if I wanted a second book after the first was so very good but this does not dissapoint. absolutely brilliant story that should be listened to again and again.

Beartown

By:
Fredrik Backman

Narrated by:
John Sackville

Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
262

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
244

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
243

Beartown is a small town in a large Swedish forest. For most of the year it is under a thick blanket of snow, experiencing the kind of cold and dark that brings people closer together - or pulls them apart. Its isolation means that Beartown has been slowly shrinking with each passing year. But now the town is on the verge of an astonishing revival. A bright new future is just around the corner. Until the day it is all put in jeopardy by a single, brutal act. It divides the town into those who think it should be hushed up and forgotten, and those who'll risk the future to see justice done.

5 out of 5 stars

Learnt a lot about ice hockey!

a must listen

Overall

5 out of 5 stars

Performance

5 out of 5 stars

Story

5 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 27-12-18

really love this book,its a rollercoaster of emotions, coming from a small village it reminded me of growing up and if you replaced hockey with rugby it was very much like the small town mentality that I grew up around. this book is definitely a must and should be available in schools to get kids to think about all of the subjects the book covers.

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Memory Man

By:
David Baldacci

Narrated by:
Ron McLarty,
Orlagh Cassidy

Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
1,410

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
1,285

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
1,281

Amos Decker is a former professional football player whose career was ended by a terrible hit. Now a police detective, Amos is still haunted by a side effect from the accident he can never forget. One night Decker comes home from a stakeout to find his wife, young daughter, and brother-in-law horrifically murdered. Obviously scarred and nearly broken, Decker has to use his skills as a detective and his unusual brain capacity to try to catch the monster who killed his family.

Amos Decker is a legend

Gripping

My first David Baldacci book and loved it from start to finish. Really intriguing story with many different elements, twists and turns.

Past Tense

By:
Lee Child

Narrated by:
Jeff Harding

Length: 12 hrs and 28 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
1,602

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
1,452

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
1,456

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Past Tense by Lee Child. From number one best seller Lee Child, the thrilling new blockbuster featuring hero Jack Reacher. Reacher, the eternal drifter, happens by chance on the small New Hampshire town he remembers his father was supposed to have come from. But when he starts looking for his dad's old home, he finds there's no record of anyone named Reacher ever having lived there.

Jack Goes Back to Basics!

definitely worth the wait.

just when you start thinking this could be one book to far, Lee Child brings out another brilliant and gripping Jack Reacher book.loved it

The Other Wife

By:
Michael Robotham

Narrated by:
Sean Barrett

Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
904

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
834

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
832

Childhood sweethearts William and Mary have been married for 60 years. William is a celebrated surgeon, Mary a devoted wife. Both have a strong sense of right and wrong. This is what their son, Joe O'Loughlin, has always believed. But when Joe is summoned to the hospital with news that his father has been brutally attacked, his world is turned upside down. Who is the strange woman crying at William's bedside, covered in his blood - a friend, a mistress, a fantasist or a killer?

5 out of 5 stars

Really excellent

a little dissapointed

Overall

3 out of 5 stars

Performance

5 out of 5 stars

Story

3 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 26-07-18

Been waiting for a new book in the series for what felt like forever and was so excited for this one. Unfortunately, the story didn't do it for me. I kept going more because of a fondness for the main characters than through enjoyment of the story. Has left me wanting another book in the series.

Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend

By:
Matthew Green

Narrated by:
Matthew Brown

Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
30

Performance

4 out of 5 stars
24

Story

4 out of 5 stars
24

Ingenious. Incredible. Invisible. My name is Budo. I have been alive for 5 years, a very long time for someone like me to be alive. MAX gave me my name. Max is 8 years old. He is the only human person who can see me. I know what Max knows, and some things he doesn't. I know that Max is in danger. And I know that I am the only one who can save him.

Different

enjoyed it but....

It took me a long time to get into this one but was glad I kept listening. very moving but confusing at times

Boy's Life

By:
Robert R. McCammon

Narrated by:
George Newbern

Length: 20 hrs and 4 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
130

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
122

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
122

Zephyr, Alabama, is an idyllic hometown for eleven-year-old Cory Mackenson - a place where monsters swim the river deep and friends are forever. Then, one cold spring morning, Cory and his father witness a car plunge into a lake - and a desperate rescue attempt brings his father face-to-face with a terrible, haunting vision of death. As Cory struggles to understand his father's pain, his eyes are slowly opened to the forces of good and evil that surround him.

It's at the top of my list.

stunning

this book is captivating, beautiful everything you could possible want and imagine in a book about growing up

The Testament of Gideon Mack

By:
James Robertson

Narrated by:
Tom Cotcher

Length: 15 hrs and 59 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
64

Performance

5 out of 5 stars
29

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
29

For Gideon Mack, faithless minister, unfaithful husband, and troubled soul, the existence of God, let alone the Devil, is no more credible than that of ghosts or fairies - until the day he falls into a gorge and is rescued by someone who might just be Satan.